Now all we need is the club to come out and say something along the lines of "every player in every grade down to under 10's, has signed on to our respect for girls /women pledge". Break the pledge and your out, **no matter how talented you are!**
Now, many will say we don't really need to do this and its over the top.
But in 2019, perception is everything. Our game off the field is starting to smell.
In respect of James Grahams comments, I think he is a bit old school, 'its a tough game for tough people and it attracts a certain type of personality etc etc', but I get some of what he was saying. He just didn't articulate it well.
The elephant in the room is that many of our players do come from broken families, socially disadvantaged families, families with limited education and resources. You only have to listen to some of our young players speak to understand their lack of general knowledge and world awareness. If you are brought up with a set of rules that includes unacceptable behaviour, then how do you know any different? This is where the NRL and its Junior Clubs can be seen to be very actively pushing the anti violence theme all the way down thru the junior grades.
Now, is the time for our Board to demonstrate their social awareness re DV, their commercial awareness of a product that is slowly strangling itself to death and do something that differentiates us from every other club. Put Benji or Reynolds or Chris Lawrence as the face of it.
Enough of my rant.
